#fighting

Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#aid #appreciation #bringing #countries #defending

And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase. ↗

— Julian Grenfell

#dead #dies #evermore #fight #fighting

When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#ends #even #every #fight #fighting

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?' ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#bad #buzz #even #fighting #give

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes. ↗

— Keith Henson

#best #captured #dying #escape #fighting

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#arm #attitude #clinic #feel #feels

I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#era #fighting #i #joe #joe louis

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#doing #fighters #fighting #find #give

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#both #cancer #everything #fighting #get

I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband is a doctor, just like I won't stop standing up for veterans because my father served in World War II. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#affordable #affordable health care #because #care #doctor